I watch many movies and television programmes with my boyfriend. And as anal as he is, he always puts the sub-titles on so that he does not ‘miss what the characters are saying.’ This is extremely frustrating because I end up reading the text instead of watching the movie and end up missing all the good parts. Nevertheless after watching numerous movies with sub-titles which are ironically titled “sub-titles for the hearing impaired” I can honestly conclude that the things they include are simply absurd. It made me have a ‘WTF moment.’
For example: When the characters of the film step into a lift why would you need to state in the sub-titles: “elevator music playing”? I mean, as a deaf person they would not know what “elevator music” is!
Furthermore, having the lyrics to a back-ground song that one cannot even hear (because it is deliberately done that way to not interfere with the characters speech), appear in the sub-titles is just pointless.
All I know is that if I was an editor of these films and was tasked to insert sub-titles, those would be the things that I would leave out.
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